Hellifield, West Riding of Yorkshire

Historical Description

Hellifield, a village and a township in Long Preston parish, W.R. Yorkshire, on the river Ribble, 5 miles SSE of Settle, with a station on the M.R. and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Leeds. Acreage, 3401; population, 601. The manor belonged to Helge the Saxon, passed to the Percys and the Rnolles, and belongs now to the Hammer-ton family. Hellifield Peel was built in the time of Henry II., and is said to have been originally moated. Church services are held in the schoolroom, and there is a Baptist chapel.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Hellifield from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Hellifield)

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for the West Riding of Yorkshire is available to browse.

Maps

Online maps of Hellifield are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following West Riding newspapers online:

• Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer
• Leeds Mercury
• Yorkshire Evening Post
• Huddersfield Chronicle
• Leeds Intelligencer
• Bradford Observer
• Bradford Daily Telegraph